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Jan Sloot said his coding system stored a whole film in 1KB. Investors bought in -- then he died and the code vanished.

The first sugar in interstellar space, erythrulose, was spotted in a Milky Way dust cloud at a frigid -250C.

Stendhal syndrome sends art tourists to a Florence hospital with racing hearts and dizzy spells. One had a heart attack.

Help! What the heck is this? What is it made of? Why is it here? And why does it look just like a cursed, melted Donald Trump?

A 2014 fanfic rewrote Harry Potter with prayer instead of magic and Voldemort as a Reddit atheist. Hoax or sincere?

A Made in USA Monopoly cost double, took a year, and still needed imported dice. 80% of US toys are made in China.

Since 1929 the UK has paid for an official cat. The Chief Mouser title now belongs to Larry, a rescue hired in 2011.

Anthony Hopkins, famed for his Oscar-winning performance as serial killer Hannibal Lecter among many other movie and television roles, has his first album coming out at 88 years of age.

British politician and novelist Ann Widdecombe, a former minister of prisons known for her dogmatic conservative views, was found dead Thursday at her home in Devon, England. Long out of ...

The FTC's 10-year settlement makes John Deere give farmers and independent shops the same repair tools as its dealers.